Word: neatness
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...pretty neat," Maher said. "We were all anxious to see if they played on another level...
...them at their court-martial. Kaffee's life is all softball, brewskies and smart remarks -- evasions of his grownup responsibilities, his large lawyerly talents and the long shadow of his great- man father. To him, principles are merely things that interfere with cozy plea bargains. He is, in fact -- neat balance here -- an upmarket version of this case's victim, a goof-off in need of some kind of Code Red himself...
...little too neat structurally, its moral and human issues a little too clear-cut: at heart it is old-fashioned melodrama. But Sorkin's dialogue | is spit-shined, and the energy and conviction with which it is staged and played is more than a compensation; it's transformative. And hugely entertaining...
Drew: Well, we're a pretty diverse group. All of us really have different favorites, which is one of the neat things about the band. One of the things that brought us all together was...certainly we came out of the funk movement in the late seventies. We were inspired by the rebellion of the Clash and the Sex Pistols. We used to do a lot of Gang of Four songs and a lot of Joy Division songs. We also did a lot of reggae music. We like the social protest of Bob Marley and the Gladiators and the Mighty...
...startlingly good, but as always, his artistic sensibility is that of a clever 14-year-old. His interest is caught by yucky death scenes and weird delusions, and he doesn't really care that these aren't the real horrors that adults deal with. "Wouldn't it be neat if, see, she gets her husband to fall down an old well," the reader imagines King thinking, "and he yells up at her to help him. She just smiles and kind of falls asleep, and the next thing she knows he's climbed up the inside of the well...